History NoCelebritiesWereHarmed / LiveActionTV

* The ''Series/{{CHIPS}}'' episode [[BattleOfTheBands "Battle of the Bands"]] sees the boys going after a [[TheQuincyPunk punk band]] who is antagonizing their new-wave rival in an upcoming rock-off. The new-wave band is called Snow Pink, as is their lead singer, a sexy [[RoseHairedSweetie rose-haired]] siren with a Joisey accent and plenty of attitude. Possibly [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] the similarity when asked where her band’s name came from, she replies "The rock world’s already got Music/{{Blondie}}."

** The show, which is set in an {{alternate|History}} [[TheSixties '60s]] UsefulNotes/{{England}} where the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom is [[BalkanizeMe apparently no more]], has a Queen (played by Creator/JessicaEllerby) who physically does resemble a younger UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, but it's left ambiguous whether she's meant to be her or not. She seemingly has no children while Elizabeth already had three of them (UsefulNotes/{{Charles|III}}, Andrew and Anne) by 1960.

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Senator Wesley Smith (D-Pennsylvania) was obviously inspired by [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_C._Hunt Lester Hunt]] (D-Wyoming). Both are opponents of UsefulNotes/JosephMcCarthy, although Hunt wasn't on the same committee. [[spoiler:Like Hunt, Smith shoots himself in his office after he gets blackmailed into giving up his seat over his son's "morals" arrest, although the exact details differ a bit.]]

* ''Series/FellowTravelers'': Senator Wesley Smith (D-Pennsylvania) was obviously inspired by Lester Hunt (D-Wyoming). Both are opponents of Joseph [=McCarthy=], although Hunt wasn't on the same committee. [[spoiler:Like Hunt, Smith shoots himself in his office after he gets blackmailed into giving up his seat over his son's "morals" arrest, although exact details differ a bit.]]

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

** In season 6, there's a vampire named "Creator/{{Robert|Pattinson}}" and the teenage girl named "Creator/{{Kristen|Stewart}}", as well as a series of totally-not-''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' books that Sam and Dean [[YourVampiresSuck rip the living bejeezus out of]]. The episode is (brilliantly) titled "Live Free or Twihard".
** Supposedly, Ruby was a character that was written for Creator/KristenBell, but she denied the role, which is why the first Ruby looks VERY similar to her.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has an episode, "The Unnatural", about a power-hitting Negro League baseball catcher who plays for the Grays, is compared to Babe Ruth, and is named Josh. Any similarities to Josh Gibson are not coincidental at all. Mulder even wears a replica of his real Homestead Grays jersey in the final scene.

* Deepak Chopra guest starred on an episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}''... in a manner of speaking. In "[[Recap/AngelS01E04IFallToPieces I Fall to Pieces]]", Angel tracks down a thinly-disguised motivational guru who served as inspiration to a killer [[PsychicSurgery Psychic Surgeon]]. He explains that he quit teaching after his pupil mastered the [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum-cellular control]] theorized in his book. In other words, the guru never believed in his own wild theories and was severely traumatized when they came true.

** Spike owes a lot to Music/BillyIdol, or as Buffy said in one episode "Actually Billy Idol stole his look from...nevermind." There's a flashback sequence to the last slayer Spike killed set in 1977 where it's a lot more blatant.

* ''Series/TheGoodPlace'' introduces a man named Brent in its last season as a new addition to the afterlife. Brent’s a thinly veiled pastiche of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh due to: his name, Ivy League education, misogyny, “HR complaints”, drinking issues, and angry middle aged white guy who can’t take criticism schtick.

* An episode of the Japanese series ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' had a one-off gag involving two American pop stars who looked suspiciously like Lady Gaga. She's apparently very recognizable across the globe.
* ''Series/LasVegas''

* ''Franchise/LawAndOrder''

** In one episode, a rapist who impregnates his victim calls in a Congressman and former doctor to testify that a woman cannot get pregnant during rape. Depicted as a politically motivated pseudoscience-peddling buffoon, he was a thinly-veiled analogue for Todd Akin, even spouting Akin's infamous "legitimate rape" soundbite.

** The VillainOfTheWeek in one episode of SVU was a news anchor who had maintained a decades-long campaign of sexual harassment against multiple female coworkers, combining elements of Creator/BillOReilly and Roger Ailes.

* S'more-headed DJ "S'More Money" in the ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' episode "A Head of Her Time" is Music/{{Marshmello}}, plus chocolate and graham crackers.

* In ''Series/ModernFamily'', Haley starts working for a New Age snake oil lifestyle brand called NERP run by a vapid blonde actress. It's a clear parody of GOOP and Creator/GwenythPaltrow.

* ''Series/TheNightmareYears'' is a mini-series about US journalist William Shirer in Nazi Germany in the 1930's. At one point Shirer sees a woman [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympia_%281938_film%29 setting up a movie camera in the Olympic stadium]] and asks if that's Leni Riefenstahl; he's told it's another female director -- who happens to parallel Riefenstahl exactly, including her adulation of Hitler, rivalry with propaganda minister Goebbels, and presence during the massacre of Polish civilians at Końskie.

* For some reason, Creator/TheBBC drama ''One By One'', based directly and officially on the memoirs of the well-known zoo vet David Taylor, named its main character Donald Turner.
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Monster", the [[UsefulNotes/{{Serbia}} Serbian]] dictator Slob Krupchek, who is described as the "[[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]] of the Balkans" due to his policy of ethnic cleansing resulting in the deaths of thousands, is one for UsefulNotes/SlobodanMilosevic. Krupchek's first name is presumably short for Slobodan.
* ''Series/{{Passions}}''

** The show, which is set in an {{alternate|History}} [[TheSixties '60s]] UsefulNotes/{{England}} where the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom is [[BalkanizeMe apparently no more]], has a Queen (played by Creator/JessicaEllerby) that physically does resemble a younger UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, but it's left ambiguous whether she's meant to be her or not. She seemingly has no children while Elizabeth already had three of them (UsefulNotes/{{Charles|III}}, Andrew and Anne) by 1960.

* An episode of the Flemish children's series ''Series/{{Rox}}'' featured a scene where the villainess tied up and gagged a flamboyant pop diva named "[[Music/LadyGaga Lady Rock]]" in order to [[MuggedForDisguise impersonate her]].

* Andy Samberg's short TV movie ''Film/SevenDaysInHell'', which itself is a parody of the infamous 3-day Isner-Mahut {{UsefulNotes/Wimbledon}} match, is about a 7 day long tennis match. One player include Charles Poole (Creator/KitHarington), a dim-witted English MamasBoy who is the only British tennis player of note, parodying Andy Murray (the differences being Murray is Scottish and not as dumb). The other player is Aaron Williams (Andy Samberg), who is basically an over-the-top version of Andre Agassi.

* ''Series/SisterBonifaceMysteries'' has one episode, "Queen of the Kitchen" featuring obvious caricatures of TV cooks Fanny and Johnny Cradock. Another, "Don't Try This At Home", revolves around a children's TV show based on ''Series/BluePeter'' and while the hosts are fairly generic, the show's editor (who ends up as BodyOfTheWeek) is more obviously based on ''Blue Peter'''s longtime editor Biddy Baxter.

* Creator/NormMacDonald's title character in the short-lived ''A Minute with Stan Hooper'' is an obvious expy of [[Series/SixtyMinutes Andy Rooney]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': the episode "The Drumhead" featured the sociopathic father-fixated narcissistic Admiral Nora Satie, who was based on either Nancy Reagan OR Margaret Thatcher, depending on which side of the Atlantic you live...
* The ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode ''[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS7E18AuthorAuthor Author, Author]]'' has an InUniverse example with The Doctor's holonovel about the crew of the starship ''Vortex'', whose identities are clearly based on those of his fellow crewmates. The ''actions'' of his characters, which are absurdly evil, are not at all reflective of the ''Voyager'' crew, but The Doctor's friends are understandably concerned that readers back home will fail to grasp the distinction.

** In "Criss Angel Is a Douche Bag", Criss Angel never shows up, but the show makes fun of him through a character named Jeb Dexter, an incredibly arrogant magician who bears an incredible resemblance to Criss Angel and does card tricks that are staged like fake demon possessions (which really upsets Dean). He dies horribly, of course. The show also makes fun of him, quietly, by ''naming the episode [[TakeThat Criss Angel Is A Douche Bag]]''

** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E71TheMirror The Mirror]]", Ramos Clemente is a not-so-subtle {{Expy}} of UsefulNotes/FidelCastro while Tabal's appearance is clearly based on that of UsefulNotes/CheGuevara. The entire episode, which was made between the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, is one long TakeThat at Castro. In his closing narration, Rod Serling even says that "any resemblance to tyrants living or dead is hardly coincidental." Funnily enough, General De Cruz mentions both Castro and his predecessor General Fulgencio Batista, the former right-wing dictator of UsefulNotes/{{Cuba}} on whom De Cruz himself is based, in the first scene.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E120TheBard The Bard]]", Rocky Rhodes, a temperamental [[MethodActing Method actor]] who is well known for starring in ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'', is a parody of Creator/MarlonBrando. Creator/WilliamShakespeare is disgusted by his manner and appearance and punches him when Rhodes asks him what he has against Stanislavski. In playing the character, Creator/BurtReynolds imitated Brando's distinctive voice and speech patterns.
* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "Street of Shadows", Frederick Perry is dating the famous film star [[Creator/LanaTurner Lana]] [[Creator/ElizabethTaylor Taylor]].

** Also, the writers based late-season presidential candidate Matt Santos partially off of Barack Obama (combined with other sources, as Obama had never served in the military, unlike Santos) and Republican Candidate Arnie Vinick has been admitted to be a thinly-veiled version of John [=McCain=]. As the writers were explicit in pointing out during the real-world election, they were aiming more for the 2000 version of [=McCain=] than the 2008 one, however. Which makes a whole lot of sense considering the last episode aired in 2006.

* ''Series/WithoutATrace'' featured a blonde heiress known for her partying and sex tape as the Main/{{Victim Of The Week}}. This was in 2005, when every TV show had a Paris Hilton ripoff.
* During the second season of the 1990's newer version of ''Series/WKRPInCincinnati'' featured an appearance from an ultra-conservative radio personality named Lash Rambo, a thinly-veiled Expy of Rush Limbaugh.
* ''Series/TheXFiles'' had an episode, "The Unnatural", about a power-hitting Negro League baseball catcher who played for the Grays, was compared to Babe Ruth, and was named Josh. Any similarities to Josh Gibson are not coincidental at all. Mulder even wears a replica of his real Homestead Grays jersey in the final scene.

* An episode of ''Series/ANTFarm'' has an obvious one of Music/LadyGaga called "Madame [=GooGoo=]".
* ''Series/BeakmansWorld'' based a few of its Famous Dead Guys on celebrities. A few that stick out are Ben Franklin as either a clean Andrew Dice Clay or Rodney Dangerfield, and Charles Goodyear as Jim Backus as Thurston Howell from ''Series/GilligansIsland'', complete with calling the female assistant "Lovey". (Not coincidentally, they also show clips from old Mr. Magoo cartoons.)
* ''Series/ICarly'':
** "iFix a Popstar" with Ginger Fox, who is a rather obvious parody of Music/BritneySpears.
** "iCook" has Ricky Flame, a parody of Bobby Flay.
** Terry Dingo is a parody of Walt Disney.
* On ''Series/{{Jessie}}'', the Ross family is a clear parody of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/AngelinaJolie's family. The Rosses have 3 adopted children, two of which are adopted from foreign countries and one biological one. All they need is biological twins.
* The Creator/DisneyChannel show ''Series/KickinIt'' has Ricky Weaver, who's a very obvious parody of Bieber. He also probably counts as a TakeThat to Justin Bieber, since he turns out to secretly be a jerk.
* ''Series/LazyTown'' villain Robbie Rotten is clearly based on Creator/JimCarrey in some way, right down to his mannerisms.
* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'': Johnny Crawfish is a crawfish who likes to tell jokes and is commonly introduced with "Here's Johnny!" by an offscreen announcer. [[Creator/JohnnyCarson Sound familiar?]]
* An episode of the Flemish children's series ''Series/{{Rox}}'' featured a scene where the villainess tied up and gagged a flamboyant pop diva named "[[Music/LadyGaga Lady Rock]]" in order to [[MuggedForDisguise impersonate her]].
* On ''Series/ShakeItUp'' in the episode "Age It Up", the 16-year-old pop sensation Justin Starr is an obvious {{Expy}} of Music/JustinBieber.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'' has famous actress Meryl Sheep, country'n'western singers Polly Darton and Hammy Swynette, game show host Pat Playjacks, opera singer Placido Flamingo, Grouch business tycoon Donald Grump, and many more. They also did music video spoofs with instantly recognizable Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and Billy Idol lookalikes.
* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': The mayor's opponent in "The Mayor Runs for Re-Election" is a parody of Richard Nixon.
-->'''Mr. Conductor:''' I just wish I knew more about the mayor's opponent. He's a very mysterious figure.\\
'''Stacy:''' I know. I've seen his picture, [[LampshadeHanging and he looks awfully familiar]]…
* ''Series/TheSunnySideUpShow'': Queen Bee, played by host Kaitlin Becker, is a parody of Music/{{Beyonce}}.
* ''Series/TheUndeclaredWar'': Russia Global Today is clearly based on Russia Today, or RT, a Russian news outlet that in real life has also been accused of being nothing more than Putin's propaganda, just like what's shown here.
* ''Series/WhoIsAmerica'': [=OMGWhizzBoyOMG's=] depiction as a seemingly friendly and childlike Nordic [=YouTuber=] with neofascist political views pegs him as an unflattering riff on LetsPlay/PewDiePie, who became embroiled in controversy the year before the show started production over a stunt where he paid a couple of Fiverr users to say an antisemitic epithet and an incident where he called another player the n-word on-stream.

* ''Series/{{Swarm}}'': Ni'Jah, the subject of fan Dre's obsession, is a fictitious version of Music{{Beyonce}}. They wear similar clothing; there are references to her having a wealthy rapper husband and a famous if underrated singer sister. The show's bee motif may also be a reference to Beyonce's {{Fan Community Nickname}}, the Beyhive.

* ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'', which is set in an {{alternate|History}} [[TheSixties '60s]] UsefulNotes/{{England}} where the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom is [[BalkanizeMe apparently no more]], has a Queen (played by Creator/JessicaEllerby) that physically does resemble a younger UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, but it's left ambiguous whether she's meant to be her or not. She seemingly has no children while Elizabeth already had three of them (UsefulNotes/{{Charles|III}}, Andrew and Anne) by 1960.

* ''Series/ConversationsWithFriends'': InUniverse, Francis creates a character that Bobbi feels is clearly based on her. She's so offended by the portrayal that she ends their friendship (temporarily).

* In ''Series/{{Shooter}}'', Junior Bama, the StupidEvil, overeager son of CorruptHick Red Bama who keeps trying to help his dad and usually ends up making things worse, seems to be a thinly-veiled expy of Donald Trump, Jr.

* ''Series/{{Pennyworth}}'', which is set in an [[alternate|History}} [[TheSixties '60s]] UsefulNotes/{{England}} where the UsefulNotes/UnitedKingdom is [[BalkanizeMe apparently no more]], has a Queen (played by Creator/JessicaEllerby) that physically does resemble a younger UsefulNotes/ElizabethII, but it's left ambiguous whether she's meant to be her or not. She seemingly has no children while Elizabeth already had three of them (UsefulNotes/{{Charles|III}}, Andrew and Anne) by 1960.

** Several other celebrities/politicians are given analogues in the ''West Wing'' universe; the list is probably too extensive to bother enumerating in detail. However, Josh Lyman more or less being [[JerkSue Rahm]] [[MemeticBadass/RealLife Emanuel]] is worth mentioning.

* ''Series/{{Tyrant}}'': [[{{Qurac}} Abuddin]] and the Al-Fayeed dictatorship are largely based on the Syrian Al-Assad dictatorship and its civil war (at one point, Abbudin is said to be bordering Syria). Bassam is a doctor living abroad who only becomes the new President after the unexpected death of his older brother Jamal, much like Bashar al-Assad and his older brother Bassel. Meanwhile, Jamal and Bassam's personalities, with Jamal as the impulsive, violent brother and Bassam as the calm, responsible one seem to be modelled after Uday and Qusay Hussein.

* For some reason, Creator/TheBBC drama ''Series/OnebyOne'', based directly and officially on the memoirs of the well-known zoo vet David Taylor, named its main character Donald Turner.

** In the fourth season, Jed Bartlet is challenged for the presidency by Robert Ritchie, a conservative Republican and governor of Florida who bears a resemblance to [[StrawCharacter parodical exaggerations]] of a certain President of the United States -- populist tendencies, right-wing views and catchy slogans coupled with a tendency to garble his words and stick his foot in his mouth when speaking. ''Series/TheWestWing'' production team being somewhat on the political left, he was promptly trounced by the intellectual, shrewd Bartlet. This approaches TruthInTelevision -- Bartlet is essentially an idealized Clinton, and Clinton did win handily in both of his races. Remove the sex scandals and [[CanonSue add a Nobel prize]], and this is wholly reasonable.

* Done to Series/MurphyBrown in-universe with a sitcom character blatantly based on her, a brassy female investigative journalist called Kelly Green. Murphy agrees to cameo on ''Kelly Green'' as an in-joke (despite advise not to from a cameoing Creator/ConnieChung).